Renting own real estate as a business activity in Slovenia

Have you been considering purchasing real estate in Slovenia? If you establish a company and purchase it through the company, you can do business by renting own real estate for long-term or short-term.

Renting own real estate in Slovenia through a company

Most non-EU citizens cannot purchase real estate as natural persons. Also, when doing business activity of renting the real estate, you have to have a company registered in Slovenia.

If you establish a company in Slovenia and buy the property through the company, you can rent this real estate out and generate income from this business activity.

Renting own real estate in Slovenia – process of company establishment

If non-EU citizens want to purchase property in Slovenia, they have to establish a company first. Non-EU citizens can register an LTD company. For that they would need a Slovenian tax number, 7.500€ founding capital and a business address in Slovenia. All shareholders and representatives would have to come to Slovenia to make the company registration and open the corporate bank account. The process takes about 2 weeks to complete.

After the company is officially registered and it has an active bank account, you can purchase the property through your company. Afterwards you can start renting it out to clients for long-term or short-term.

Renting own real estate in Slovenia – possibility for business immigration

If you also plan to relocate to Slovenia and oversee your business, purchasing real estate through the company would give you the possibility to apply for business immigration. If the property you purchased costed more than 50.000€ and if you have the appropriate business activity registered, you can apply for work and residence permit based on making an investment to the company’s fixed assets.

It is important that you make the purchase within 6 months from company registration. You also have to submit the application for work and residence permit within those 6 months.

Renting own real estate in Slovenia – establish a company with the support of Data!

If you decided to open a company in Slovenia, Data can offer you full support. We can obtain the necessary documents for company registration. You can also register the LTD company at our VEM/SPOT point free of charge.

Our legal department can assist you to understand what business activities you have to register in order to be able to do renting own real estate. They can also draft contracts for you.

We also provide full accountancy services and tax consultation in accordance with the Slovenian accountancy standards.

Should your company need a business address, we can provide offer services of virtual office.

For more information on renting real estate as a business activity in Slovenia, you can write to our email [email protected]. You can also contact us over the phone 00386 1 6006 270 or 00386 40 530 718 (Viber, WhatsApp).  You can also follow us on Facebook.